Posted on 09/28/2006 11:45:56 PM PDT by goldstategop
RUSH: We have a montage of Drive-By Media, CNN's -- well, not just CNN. There's some other people on here, mostly CNN, some from ABC, one from Fox, NBC. Yesterday at the White House, President Bush had a meeting with Presidents Karzai and Musharraf, and they came out and they met the media, and apparently there was not a handshake at the end of the deal between Musharraf and Karzai. That became the subject. That was yesterday's media "gravitas."
SYLER: President Bush hosted Presidents Karzai of Afghanistan and Musharraf of Pakistan at dinner but could not get them to shake hands.
BLITZER: I thought at a minimum we would see a handshake.
SCOTT: These two leaders apparently did not even shake hands.
ZAHN: So maybe a handshake but no hugs.
Three Presidents: Bush, Musharaff and Karzai
CUOMO: At the White House, they refuses to shake hands.
CARLSON: These guys have no business shaking each other's hands.
MALVEUAX: ...some sort of public handshake.
COOPER: There wasn't some sort of public handshake.
MITCHELL: The two rivals publicly avoided shaking hands.
BLITZER: I was fully expecting President Bush to do what President Clinton did when he had Rabin and Arafat sort of force them to come together and shake hands, clasp hands, do a three-way, if you will.
RUSH: (Laughing.) A three-way? Wolf! What's happening to CNN? So there you have it. Clinton was great. He was able to get a handshake between Arafat and Rabin. A lot it meant. A lot of good it did. The problem is still not solved. Total symbolism over substance! They think handshakes matter. The substance of what might have gone on in the meeting between these two leaders, irrelevant. Total symbolism over substance on the part of the Drive-By Media.
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RUSH: I mentioned to you last week that I like the ABC series Boston Legal, and episode number two of this season was on Tuesday night. I just got around to watching it last night (I TiVoed the thing), and it has the funniest open, and smoking my cigar here reminded me of it. William Shatner, who I guess his career has had a rebirth with this show, actually is funny as heck. He plays this slowly losing-it senior partner in a law firm. His name is Denny Crane.
William Shatner As Denny Crane
The episode opens with two new lawyers, and it's set in Boston, two new lawyers in the New York office arriving in the Boston office, and Crane is out there and he's smoking a cigar in the lobby, and one of the new lawyers is this uptight chick who comes in and starts calling him chubby and icky and so forth, and then finally discovers he's smoking a cigar, says, "Ooh, you're smoking a cigar!" And Shatner looks at her with the cigar right just inches from her face, "Bill Clinton gave me this cigar. You never know where this has been." She goes, "Ick, ick, ick!" You just don't see this in prime-time television shows. (Laughing.)
Anyway, I have a note here, ladies and gentlemen. Tony Snow earlier today in a press briefing not televised, said of last night: "Let me take on last night's meeting in several ways. First, contrary to some of the early reports, there were handshakes in advance. You had the two presidents in the Roosevelt Room together before going into the Oval." This is Musharraf and Karzai. "Warm handshakes extended all around, some preliminary chatting and joking before they went out to the Rose Garden and they went off to dinner." So there were handshakes last night, as I say, what a thing to make a big point of, especially as Wolf Blitzer did. I thought that Bill Clinton engineered a handshake between Rabin and Arafat. Yeah, a lot of good it did, Wolfster. I'll repeat it. Monica! Monica Lewinsky went well beyond shaking Clinton's hand, and he still screwed her over. So, you
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MR. SNOW: Last night -- let me take on last night's meeting in several ways. First, contrary to some of the early reports, there were handshakes in advance. You had the two presidents in the Roosevelt Room together before going into the Oval, warm handshakes extended all around, some preliminary chatting and joking before they went out to the Rose Garden, and then off they went to dinner.
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Love the Rush. Gotta love Denny Crane!
Also, for what it is worth, not every culture uses handshakes.
That is a great photo. It really conveys that smacked-between-the-eyes feeling that Clinton must have had at that moment.
But why would a man with such big hands need to be messing about with cigars?
If it was one of Monica's chubby phases............ ;-)
In "Clinton-Speak", he probably could then say:
"I NEVER touched her sexually".......(..the cigar did....)
The Dem Media is the greatest Comic Strop going!!
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